Hall - A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE

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Praise for A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200479 BCE, 2nd Edition

Breaking news the Archaic period of ancient Greece is not archaic! The updated and augmented second edition of this thematically inflected history does full justice to an experimental and brilliantly innovative era.

Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Informative and clear for the student and the interested non-specialist, this book is full of stimulating observations and questions, from which also the specialist may profit. With its second edition, Jonathan Hall offers a reliable and up-to-date survey of the major developments in society, institutions, and culture in the Greek World and its periphery from the end of the Mycenaean palace administration to the Persian Wars. By operating with a long Archaic Age, that has its roots in the Late Bronze Age, Jonathan Hall fruitfully challenges the traditional periodization of Greek history.

Angelos Chaniotis, Institute for Advanced Study

Further enriched in its second edition, this book offers a balanced, superbly informed, critical, and lucid discussion of all the major issues that contributed to shaping Greek society and culture in its formative period. Engaging closely with the archaeological evidence, textual sources, and modern scholarship, the author challenges many well-established views and introduces the reader to the evidence as well as the tools, approaches, and methods on which a meaningful reconstruction of the crucial developments in early Greek history can be based. Hall does not present final truths but takes us along on his exciting and sometimes frustrating road to discovery; he stimulates our thinking and helps us penetrate to a deeper level of understanding.

Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University

Blackwell History of the Ancient World

This series provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople. Written by experts in their fields, the books in the series offer authoritative accessible surveys for students and general readers alike.

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This edition first published 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hall, Jonathan M.

A history of the archaic Greek world, ca. 1200-479 BCE / Jonathan M. Hall. Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-30127-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-118-34036-3 (epdf) ISBN 978-1-118-34041-7 (mobi) ISBN 978-1-118-34046-2 (epub) 1. GreeceHistoryTo 146 B.C. I. Title.

DF221.2.H35 2013

938dc23

2013012728

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Gigantomachy, detail of north side of frieze of Siphnian Treasury, 525 B.C. Delphi Archaeological Museum. Photo akg / De Agostini Picture Library

Cover design by Richard Boxhall Design Associates

To Gregorio

Maps

The Aegean

Migrations according to the literary tradition

Distribution of the Greek dialects

Distribution of Late Geometric burials at Athens

Distribution of Geometric burials at Argos

Plan of Unit IV-1, phase 2 at Nikhoria

Foundations in Italy, Sicily, and the West

Foundations in the Black Sea and Propontis

Plan of the zone around the Archaic agora at Megara Hyblaea in (a) the sixth and (b) the eighth centuries

The Peloponnese

Settlements in Attica

Settlements on Crete

Xerxes' route and the Persian War of 48079

Central Greece

Figures

The alliances that have been proposed for Eretria and Chalcis in the Lelantine War

List of months at Athens, Miletus, Rhodes, and Epidaurus (n.b. the year began in mid-summer)

Ceramic chronology for Attica and Corinthia

Argive Late Geometric pyxis

Laconian black-figure hydria

Thucydides' dates for the foundations in Sicily

Grave Circle A, Mycenae

The tribal organization of selected Dorian cities